Esparragosa de Lares, Spain
A rural holiday wouldn’t be complete without a farm trip. We took off into the outskirts – a 7-minute walk! – to D’s cousin’s farm. I was excited about seeing the animals, city-dweller that I am. There were just-born baby geese, hens a-hatching, roosters strutting, chickens running away from humans and curious lambs wondering why we were hanging about.
D’s cousin gave us freshly laid eggs which had a blue-ish tinge. Apparently, they are no-cholesterol eggs, although I haven’t been able to verify that. Anybody know?
~ Spotted Cow
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What a great looking group of hens and rooster – is it a typical type for the region?
Gosh, I don’t know very much about chickens so I didn’t think to ask. I should’ve done then I could look up their eggs. But they are quite a handsome bunch !
How beautiful are these? That first capture is simply magnificent – I can hear those geese from here! 🙂
When you said that I thought, what noise do geese make … apart from hissing, that is.
They make a strange honking sound. Very hard to describe but once you hear it, you won’t forget it!
Each photo is better than the next! All stunning, but I think my favorite is the single rooster. Such a great shot. As for the blue eggs, have no idea, but they’re lovely to look at 🙂
Thank you for such kind words. Actually, that single rooster was a hen sitting on it’s eggs ! I had never seen the blueish eggs before. It was quite curious. If they are truly no-cholesterol, so much the better. I think I ate more eggs in that week than I have done this whole year !
BEAUTIFUL shots! The farm animals look so much more interesting and beautiful.
Thank you! Trouble is, the chickens never stay still ! They keep running away !
Haha! So it’s sort of like photographing children then. (At least, MY kid never stays still.) 🙂